NJ mayor, police chief cleared for generator use

NORTH HALEDON (AP) — A special committee has exonerated a mayor and a police chief in northern New Jersey for using the town’s generators following Superstorm Sandy.

The panel cleared North Haledon Mayor Randy George and Police Chief Robert Bracco of any wrongdoing, saying there was no intention to use their official positions to provide an unwarranted benefit for themselves.

George used two generators to keep refrigerators running at his ice cream parlor. Bracco used a generator for one night at his home in Wayne, where his elderly mother was staying.

Councilman Bruce Iacobelli, who chaired the investigation, tells The Record newspaper the mayor and chief were doing the best they could to care for themselves, so they could take care of the public.